What's good NYC,
Thurday night I attended the first of four nights Pop up Film festival at the Dash art Gallery and it was pretty dope. Ricky Powell a world re known hip hop photographer was in the building last night. Ricky was a photographer for def jam records covering the lives of artists like Run DMC The Beastie Boys and LL cool J need I say more.... Yeah he also took photos of Wu tang having a session Rakim killin it on stage and Krs 1 shooting a video in the BDP days in Manhattan. He gave us a slide show of some of his work which was very impressive I mean seeing photos of Run DMC in Paris next to the Eiffle Tower or a photo of Andy Warhol on the streets of New York.
As if that weren't enough he also gave hilarious commentary for each photo... well almost every one. His honesty about how some of these historic photos came about were crazy like eating a bagel while taking the Eiffel tower picture of Run DMC or strong arming a jerkoff photographer (In his own words) for a photo of Public Enemy.
Ricky Powell is a legendary photographer who captured hip hop history in the making on his camera not for himself ;but for a generation that will come after him.Think about it without photos of that time period in hip hop it wouldn't be long before we forgot it completely. I suggest you true hip hop heads google him and check out some of his prints you won't be sorry. I didn't get his website but try rickypowell.com don't front look him up yo.
The second part of the night was in the hands of Dj/Producer EDAN. His skills and knowledge of hip hop is off the charts. He's unleashing his Dj skills with the collabortive project "Echo Party" with filmaker Tim Fitzgerald called "Echo Party" A visual montage of the 70's and 80's party scene from go go dancing to Break dancing provided by Fitzgerald. I enjoyed being taken back into time with Edan's musical score which really coincided the visuals of the filmaker It was clear they saw eye to eye on this project. Be on the lookout for the Echo Party on CD and DVD.
Shout to EDAN! If your up north like New Hampshire hit up his next show at Vassar College.
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